Joe Scarborough: “If the gentleman would yield back, I cannot help but think about one particular agency in general, and I know, without…”

“If the gentleman would yield back, I cannot help but think about one particular agency in general, and I know, without getting into the specifics, I have wondered what has been happening with the Department of Education, a bureaucracy that has not been around for 200 years, but since its inception and since it achieved Cabinet-level position, look what has happened in our schools. Look what has happened to our young people. As our Speaker has been saying for so long, we live in a country where 12-year-olds are having babies, where 15-year-olds are shooting each other, where 17-year-olds are dying of AIDS, and where 18-year-olds graduate from high schools with diplomas they cannot even read. What has this Federal bureaucracy that was supposed to help our children done for us for all the money that has been poured into it over the years?”